The Technicolor Refrigerator

In his bookWhat Color Is Your Diet?, David Heber, the founding director of UCLA's Center for Human Nutrition, advocates turning your refrigerator Technicolor: lots of hues, no beige. Most cancers are not inherited, he says. They result from breakdowns in DNA. Some cases could be prevented by this simple shift on your plate. "When your DNA code was being set down fifty thousand years ago, it had no idea that you'd be eating a basket of chips at a Mexican restaurant." To surround the chicken and fresh wild fish on your plate, replace anything bland looking with a selection from Heber's Color Wheel:

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